Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
1) Rodney Marsh (Australia) and Ian Botham (England) Rodney Marsh to Ian Botham in an Ashes match: “So how’s your wife and my kids'” Ian Botham's reply - "The wife's fine. The kids are retarded !" 2) Javed Miandad (Pakistan) and Merv Hughes (Australia) Javed Miandad called Hughes a fat bus conductor during a match. A few balls later, Hughes dismissed Miandad. “Tickets...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
• All-rounder ranked No1 in ODIs and fourth in Tests • Shakib 'thrilled' to join county of Botham and Imran Worcestershire, the most beleaguered county in the land, have pulled off one of the imaginative signings of the close season — the world-ranked No1 all-rounder. Arguments rage over whether Shakib Al Hasan, the 22-year-old captain of Bangladesh, the world's most unfashionable...
The Corridor (a cricket blog) (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Most of us have one: a player to whom we can largely attribute – to varying degrees of tragicness – a lifelong passion for cricket. Alan Tyers’ imagination was first truly captured by Ian Botham, as he explains in the latest edition of Cricinfo’s series, My Favourite Cricketer. These players have a lot to answer for, and [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
England's latest hope at No7 is ready to stake his claim with bat and ball in South Africa English cricket seems to have been searching for a proper all-rounder for most of the past 101 years, since WG Grace played the last of his 44 seasons. The latest applicant, following Andrew Flintoff's retirement, has not yet played a Test, has scored seven centuries in seven years of county cricket and has...
Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Ashes Cricket 2009 is a Cricket sports game developed by Transmission Games and published by Codemasters in the UK and by Atari in Australia. The game is licensed by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board), Cricket Australia and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), owners of the Ashes Urn. It includes all the official players of the Australian cricket team and the England cricket team. Bringing you...
Dipz Cricket World (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Congratulations to 19 year-old James Taylor, voted the 2009 Young Cricketer of the Year (YCY) by the Cricket Writers' Club. Aged just 19, the Leicestershire middle-order batsman has shone in a fankly mediocre side this summer, breaking various records along the way. He became the county's youngest player to score 1000 Championship runs in a season, to score a double-century (207 not out) and to hit...
Scary Duck (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Neither Mirth Nor Woe: Eggy Dave "So, what did you get for your birthday, then?" "Cricket stuff. Loads of cricket stuff." "Nothing personal you understand, old chap, but you're bloody weird." Eggy Dave loved his cricket. While other teenagers were mad keen on their favourite football teams – and our school had far too many Tottenham Hotspur fans to be absolutely...
Artman Sport (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Paul Gascoigne is a Tyneside lad who at the age of seventeen entered the stage of the Newcastle Football club in the days when there were four stands and the wind and rain came through the open corners. That September in 1985 he scored his first goal for the club's first team before a crowd that quickly came to adore his flair and commitment. At the age of 19 years he was selected as the Professional...
Hackers Hacking Downloads (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Another Xbox 360 release here from group STRANGE. This time it isn’t region free, only for PAL users and it’s Ashes Cricket 2009. Description: The game will provide you with the most authentic Ashes experience possible without having to don your white. Delivering all the exciting, athletic, skilful and technical elements of the sport, the game’s comprehensive ‘Ashes’...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
Only two men who have played Test cricket in the last 25 years are included in Cricinfo's team, Kevin Pietersen intriguingly being one of them Test cricket may have sexed itself up to a barely recognisable degree in the 21st century, but the announcement of an all-time England XI on Cricinfo, the world's largest cricket website, shows that the memories of a golden age of unsullied flannels, undemonstrative...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
The stage is all set for Andrew Flintoff to bow out of Test cricket as an Ashes hero in the fifth and final test There are no fairytales in sport," Steve Waugh said. He is probably right. But this week Andrew Flintoff will be doing all he can to prove him wrong. We are in Tom Tully territory. Tully was the most prolific writer of Roy of the Rovers and all the tools of his trade are to hand. The...
Cricinfo (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Headingley and the Ashes will forever be synonymous with remarkable turnarounds, but England will require a comeback to rival that of Ian Botham and pals in 1981
Test Match Special (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
At the start of the Edgbaston Test it was Phillip Hughes who caused a stir in the on-line world by announcing his exclusion from the Australian Test team via a message on the social networking site "Twitter" Well the next revelation we hear via Twitter is that super-cool singer song writer Lily Allen is a big cricket fan who listens to Test Match Special and is considering a career in cricket...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Follow the latest with our enhanced desktop scoreboard and why not immerse yourself in our new Hawk-Eye tool . Send your Ashes emails to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk The weather is fine, and Ian Botham, who knows a few things about swing bowling, reckons conditions are conducive. Talking of Beefy, this is great . I don't know what's funnier: the wounded pride, the disgust, or the mullet. On only four...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
'What a fantastic experience – winning the Ashes in the afternoon and still up 12 hours later partying with Elton John' I played in four successful Ashes series, but the last one, in 1986-87, was particularly memorable for the way we confounded all expectations. We lost two state matches before the first Test in Brisbane, which inspired the journalist Martin Johnson to write his famous line:...
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